“If you don’t have big dreams and goals, you’ll end up working for someone that does.” – Unknown

“Invite people into your life that don’t look or think like you.” – Mellody Hobson (president, Ariel Investments)

“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.” – Ted Turner

“It was a risk. I had my husband and I was pregnant with my oldest son. But I don’t look at risk the way other people do. When you’re an entrepreneur, you have to go in feeling like you’re going to be successful.” – Lillian Vernon (founder, Lillian Vernon Corporation)

“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” – Reid Hoffman (co-founder, LinkedIn)

“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” – Caterina Fake (co-founder, Flickr)

“If we tried to think of a good idea, we wouldn’t have been able to think of a good idea. You just have to find the solution for a problem in your own life.” – Brian Chesky (co-founder, Airbnb)

“This is what will change the world: a groundswell of people pouring their energy into manifesting their ‘preferred future’ instead of being worn down by disillusion and disappointment.” – Molly Carlile (international speaker/author)

“Getting the team right is the necessary precursor to getting the ideas right.” – Ed Catmull (cofounder, Pixar)

“The Team! The Team! The Team!” – Bo Schembechler

“Dear entrepreneurs, you can start a thousand businesses, launch 100 projects, and take dozens of companies public, but you only have one shot at being part of your kid’s childhood. Your kid doesn’t care about your platform, they care about your presence.” – Jon Acuff

“Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.” – Karl Marx

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

“When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.'” – Tom Preston-Werner (co-founder, Github)